Characters
Watched a murder take place.
Who is Will?
"And the next/ day, kids would play mummy with it" (Reynolds 28).
What are childhood reminders?
"around his neck/ like a magic rope" (Reynolds 74).
What is the gold chain?
"She fanned smoke/ from her face,/ thumbed to Buck,/ who shook his head" (Reynolds 113).
What is imagery?
Will's age.
Who is Shawn?
Breath
What is life?
"Alive = A veil" (Reynolds 88).
What is an anagram?
"the stench of/ death and sweat/ trapped in the/cotton like/ fish grease" (Reynolds 65).
What is simile?
Items on top of Shawn's dresser.
What are 'half-empty bottles of cologne'?
"Talked so much trash because/ he was short" (Reynolds 51)
Who is Riggs?
3
What are the rules, or heavenly relations?
"leaning forward for the light/...and again the elevator came to a stop" (Reynolds 146).
What is the cigarette?
"When/ you're walking in the nighttime,/ make sure the nighttime/ ain't walking into you" (Reynolds 40).
What is personification?
Describe Buck (must have 4 details).
Older than Will, wearing a gold necklace, no facial hair, silk screened t-shirt "RIP Buck"
Figurative big brother
"L"
What is the loser and/or the button to the end of the story?
"I've never been/ in an earthquake./ Don't know if this was / even close to how they/are, but the ground/ definitely felt like/it opened up/and ate me" (Reynolds 13)
What is a calligram?
"Dogs,/ even snarling ones,/ tuck their tails between their legs,/ a sign of fear" (Reynolds 92)
What is a metaphor? (double points if you can tell me the metaphor and what's being compared)
Nicknames given for 'gun' in the book. (list 6)
What is cannon, strap, piece, biscuit, burner, heater, chopper, gat, hammer, tool?
Represents light and happiness
Who is Dani?
Yellow
What is "Shawn's ghost"?
"and knocked/around../like something off track" (Reynolds 96).
What is the middle drawer?
"Get a grip" (Reynolds 109).
What is an idiom?
Seconds that have passed from floor 7 to the end of floor 6.
What is '18' seconds?